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Thesis full text PDF (in Italian) - Politecnico di Milano

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others types of them that the social platform enable to share, likevideos, images, l<strong>in</strong>ks, etc.It’s on the basis of these ma<strong>in</strong> social concepts that the SNA [4] (Social NetworkAnalysis), apply<strong>in</strong>g the network theory, tries to understand how relations arecreated and how <strong>in</strong>formation and contents flows on networks, this, <strong>in</strong> order toimprove exist<strong>in</strong>g systems or to create new ones and to make considerations usefulfor the users themselves (suggest<strong>in</strong>g future <strong>in</strong>teractions or new possiblerelationships) or for the market<strong>in</strong>g needs.Recently, always thanks to the social networks success, many content aggregatorslike TwitterDeck 1 , has been created. These applications enable users to see <strong>in</strong> realtimesocial updates com<strong>in</strong>g from <strong>di</strong>fferent social networks to which they aresubscribed, provid<strong>in</strong>g them, through previous authorization, the possibility to<strong>in</strong>teract with others as if they are really connected to the social website.Despite there are many applications of this type, no ones allows to visualize<strong>in</strong>tegrated statistics related to a set of social profiles provided by the user.The ma<strong>in</strong> objectives of this thesis project are the study of the reputation problemwith<strong>in</strong> social networks, the def<strong>in</strong>ition of analysis metrics and models, and thecreation of a web application through which registered users may view, not onlysocial updates <strong>in</strong> real-time, but also statistical data daily collected, related to allthe social profiles provided.In particular, dur<strong>in</strong>g the project implementation, <strong>di</strong>fferent types between the mostcommon social networks, have been chosen on the basis of the <strong>in</strong>formation madeavailable by their API and, through the def<strong>in</strong>ition of a specific data structure, allthe daily variations of the social values observed (like content items, posts, views,etc.), have been memorized. Moreover, a page conta<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g a general overview1 TwitterDeck: is a client application implemented through Adobe Air. It allows users to managetheir accounts over <strong>di</strong>fferent social networks like for example Twitter, Facebook, FourSquare, etc.8

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